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half-starved
adjective
- having been deprived of food; malnourished
Example Sentences
The Israeli army has again issued evacuation orders, forcing half-starved, exhausted, multiply-displaced survivors on the move again in an impossible search for safety.
During the pandemic, Sports Arena workers frequently found cast-off, half-starved horses roaming the San Gabriel riverbed and its trails.
"Would you want to live from the age of 40, half-starved, have a completely unpleasant life, if you're going to live another five years at the end? I wouldn't," he said.
But by age 12, she found herself worrying that she wasn’t quite the physical ideal espoused by the school’s late founder, George Balanchine: a half-starved waif.
Surprisingly, he was released after a few months — tens of thousands would be murdered there — arriving home half-starved and with all his teeth knocked out.
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